The various housing locations of the municipality of Zeist are joined in order to concentrate the municipal housing. In this new working environment, people will work in a different way, namely according to the principles of The New World of Work. As part of this method, flexible workplaces are introduced. In addition, the public task will be focussed on the future, based on the vision ’The municipality has the answer’. A counter for the citizen. These developments not only have their consequences for the zoning of the building, the design and the furniture, but also for the culture of the municipality.

The plan includes a monumental town hall, in which the old council chamber has been given a new plural function, and an existing extension from the eighties, which mainly provides accommodation for The New World of Work of the municipality. Between the old town hall and the existing building, Rau Architects realized a new building. A hull. Atelier PRO designed the interior, in which the public tasks of the municipality are housed.

Important parts of the design plan are formed by the hybrid workplace, Zeist’s character, sustainability in all possible forms, and making old build and new build correspond.